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by jonesb6 11y ago
If I were in your position I would research the cultural expectations placed on women in that country and, if applicable, explain how a career in software engineering would give them opportunities to have a better life.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Ok c'mon people GoPro does not belong with Twitter, Yahoo, and Autodesk. Yahoo has been on it's way down for the better part of a decade. If you're going to provide 'evidence' at least make sure it's valid firs
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I've tutored a number of introductory CS students and have found w3schools.com to be a fantastic source of reference material for students. Years ago there was some controversy with the site because it taught web standards / conve
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I would argue that licensing drives up the average quality of the professional. This should be necessary for a profession that can cause pain (or hand out drugs) like dentistry, but not for something like a hair stylist where it wouldn&#x27
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Anyone whose ever been to a bad dentist would see the merit in this. I used to go to a "budget" dentist when I was a kid and had very painful experiences, it can be excruciatingly painful if the dentist doesn't know what he&#
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I think the most important attribute of a good tutor is time. I tutored introductory courses in CS during undergrad and found if students saw their tutor making a time commitment to their studies they would often make an equal or greater co
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I don't think Steve Jobs is a good example for this discussion.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I probably misrepresented what my intentions are. I'm not actually going on a research trip, but I do intend to visit Europe soonish, and hope to get a better understanding of what is going mainly by talking to locals etc.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
This is particularly bad in college towns where almost all development is being done by a small handful of companies, who lure in students and then raise the rents for new tenants year over year until inflated rental prices become the norm.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Regardless to people's own position I think we can all agree that there is a lot of emotion, rhetoric, propaganda even, surrounding the refugee and migrant crises currently going on in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. After s
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Essentially "we care about privacy, until something comes up that scares the general public and makes us care less about privacy", a.k.a. Ohlocracy [1]. It also doesn't address the problem of abuse. Remember when the NSA agen
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by jonesb6 11y ago
The case of Runescape is very simple. They got bought out in 2012 by Insight Venture Partners, a firm specialized in buying out MMO's and milking them for everything they are worth. Adding micro transactions and shifting content focus
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by jonesb6 11y ago
When I was 16/17 years old I was clearing 500/1000 a week goldfarming for this game. Failed AP Calculus and stunted my social life.. and the money didn't last long.. but it sparked an interest in software engineering and entr
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I would just like to point out that people tend to take the most practical approach possible when learning HTML and CSS. So they learn JQuery, Bootstrap, Wordpress, Rails, etc. because it's the fastest way to get things done. It is my
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by jonesb6 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies If anyone wants to practice their critical think skills, see how many fallacies you can spot in this article.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Well it's whack-a-mole isn't it? Take down one spam network and another crops up with an entirely different methodology and signature. If I was managing a large social network that suffered from bots I would whack until I came acr
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I agree, and I think Sandstorm is not a great center piece to have the "contact sales" discussions round. I think it's just a note that the start up community in general could up its 'sales experience' game, ranging
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by jonesb6 11y ago
New Relic got stuck trying to provide mainstream analytics in a world where analytics solutions must be highly tailored to the applications they are responsible for providing insights into.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
You sound like a great parent who really cares about their daughter, so I feel like I should leave a final point. In my anecdotal experience as a recent CS undergrad, STEM, and particularly engineering, CS, and Mathematics, paths seem to ge
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Yeah, but vendors should realize that users can see-through the facade. Seeing "contact sales" makes me think of the sticker shock, and me being a cynic I often expect the pricing offered to be much higher then it ultimately ends
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by jonesb6 11y ago
What if she decides to change her degree path? It may lower her ROI and skew all the cost projections made when choosing a school etc.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Worst still a large number of companies are springing up offering refinancing on private loads that offer absurd terms and drag debtors further into the hole. These refi companies are to debtors what for-profit schools are to blue-collard w
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I'm a perfect example of the problem you just described, parents basically let me handle all applications, pick my school, my major, and I ended up choosing an out of state school that was vastly beyond my means (~45k/yr). Parents
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by jonesb6 11y ago
As stated above, I think it's not so much a lack of trust but a lack of confidence in a company that can't give you a straight-up pricing structure on their web page. It screams "we'll charge you as much as we think you
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Reminds me of the Microsoft quote someone here brought up yesterday, "I've said it before and I'll say it again, we're too damn disorganized to be as evil as you think we are." Given Yahoo's track record it is
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Wouldn't knowing Facebook's profit model be enough to deter any company from using it internally?
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Wow that was my first time looking at http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ . Is their some template you fill out for your blog whenever you get acquired?? Seriously: copy, past, repeat.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Recently implemented pagination for the skeleton of a large meteor/angular application that will target both mobile and web. I'll likely split it and have infinite scrolling on the mobile interface and keep the current pagination
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I'm more inclined to believe unfit parents are unfit because they care more about themselves then their children. Their worried about their own problems and not introspectively critiquing their own parenting... Edit: totally misread yo
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by jonesb6 11y ago
"notable exception of the rare completely unfit parent" If you think unfit parents are rare you should talk to a social worker, police officer, or nurse, they will be able to bury you with heartbreaking stories of what life is lik

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